John Tropea on Attention Agents

John Tropea is a librarian, a profession I hold in the highest regard (I'm married to one.) Libraries are also institutions where attention data and related services could be incredibly useful tools, so I was thrilled to see him post on this very subject today:

At the moment we collect RSS feeds ourselves, maybe in the future a bot can go looking for RSS feeds it knows we will like based on our attention file (something Rojo does, but this is based on the data Rojo has about us…we need our own attention file made up from all the services we use. I bet if I then plugged this into Rojo, the feed recommendations would be much more tuned).

Further to that, maybe it could replace our RSS Readers...based on our attention file, our bot could trawl the net (not sure if you ask it where to visit) and return a list of daily readings…the more expansive our attention file becomes, the more the bot will seem to know your preferences.

tags: attention attentiontrust attention+economy attention+data john+tropea libraries